Reboot #2 Days 3 (Part 2) - Day 5

Welcome to another blog about juice! In all seriousness though I am so glad I figured out why I felt so poorly the last go round. I am feeling so much better this time and was even able to resist a horribly bad for me, but oh so delicious looking sheet cake at work yesterday. That was a tough fight!

So we finally weighed ourselves yesterday. Logician is down to 217.5 and I am down to 204. His weight loss is a bit slower this time but I think that's because he's not getting enough calories. We shall continue to argue this fact for awhile. 

An interesting thing I forgot to write up in the last blog was that when we picked up those amazing grapes (yes they are still amazing), the cashier asked us if we had seen Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (Join the Reboot). It is interesting to us that it seems like all sorts of people have seen the documentary and taken Rebooting into consideration. It reminded us just how epidemic the fast food diet is. 

I don't know exactly what I will do if this Reboot gets me below 200lbs. I haven't weighed less than 200 since I was in high school. More on the days after the jump.

Rebooting Days 3-5

So lets see... I'm still doing okay on this juicing twice a day and having a solid dinner but last night (day 4) we only had a veggie dinner. But let me tell you it kicked arse! In fact we're never having meat tacos at home again!

So on Day 3 we made a fruit juice for breakfast and I must say I personally prefer the fruit juices. For some reason the veggie heavy ones do not make me want to drink them. But I am still trying my best!

A day late

I have no Bento for myself today and Logician did not eat his from yesterday. But I decided to take a break from Bento for the rest of this week in order to give my mind some time to come up with some better ideas! Although Logician's Bento for yesterday is probably the best one I have ever made. I am trying to make sure I incorporate more colors to provide us a better balance and when he couldn't decide which meat to use I left it out!

Here's his:

He only had one onigiri left so I placed it in the side car compartment with some bell pepper dices. He has his Kimchi which he loves so much, and then some radishes in a small sauce container we had lying about in a cabinet. I also gave him a bit more rice by placing a thin strip along the side and covered it with Furikake (also on the onigiri) and basil. His radishes are in a bed of carrots and a field of sliced snow peas finishes his box.

I love how pretty this one came out. I really don't plan my Bento they just sort of happen. It's enjoyable. Mine was nice but not as pretty as his.

Mine:

I am enjoying having the rice all on one side in these boxes. It allows me to make the main compartment look very nice, but I find myself at a loss for what to fill the side cars with. In this one I had some salad olives, a halved hard boiled egg (sans yolk) and my soy bottles. My rice had toasted sesame and basil on top. I used the last few pieces of ham which I diced and placed in the box last. I first put in the snow pea slices, followed by the left over dices of Logician's carrot forest and bell pepper bed.

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I have been trying to make these so they do not have to be refridgerated, but I am definitely sure that they should be reheated. Logician has purchased some traditional Bento boxes for me and I am looking forward to the freedom it will create. Especially in situations where one compartment should be heated and the others don't need to be. I also purchased us a joint gift of some rice/soup bowls with covers. I may start trying to make my own miso soup balls (as found on www.justbento.com) and take one of these with me in my lunch box. We will see. I am going to also try to update the blog a bit and add some of the websites I visit.

Until Sunday night then - Happy eats!